HEAVY ARMOUR ARE YOUR BOARDS TOO LIGHT?
It was Hawaiian powerhouse surfer and international competitor, Dane Kealoha, who used to talk about weight and about how if you wanted to succeed in Hawaii for the season, your boards needed to be heavier. That was when the ASP ran three events in Hawaii for their premier league. With Sunset Beach in the mix, it was often the most important contest of the year with qualifications lost or regained, at that event. As anyone who has surfed Sunset, or watched it feathering on a big day when it’s big and windy, knows it’s a ridiculously-hard wave to surf and even harder to surf well.
Big and juicy west peaks at Sunset do not like feather-light toothpicks. They prefer blades wrapped in a few layers of 6-ounce cloth.
“A couple of extra pounds,” is what Kealoha used to describe his program to get ready for the North
